cait: Thanks for your consideration in answering me and reassuring me about the templates. I have not bee very efficient so far, I tend to sit down in isolation to learn, and I always make something wrong and have to relearn.

Yeah sysprefs tricket me a little bit at first there. At other times it is just me being unfocused. The trick is to make the value of my contributions larger than the cost of helping me. Then it is profit from day one.